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Category: Arctic

Begg, R. Campbell [???] - Autobiographical account using material from Journal and letters, of operations in the Arctic including Russian Convoys PQ17, 18 and sequential, relief of Spitzbergen, Denmark Strait patrol. Includes a "Crossing the Arctic Circle" certificate and an hour long video incorporating most of the existing film of operations in the area, concentrating mainly on PO 18, with material from British, German and Russian sources. See RNMN and Tape Num [Blank]

Category: Arctic

Roger Hill, Cdr, RN. [???] - A spirited account of his roll as Commander of the Destroyer Ledbury on PQ17. See Tape Num [Blank]

Category: Arctic

D. A. Crockatt (NAVY) - Various material especially relating to HMS Peacock and Russian Convoy Club

Search for this in the full Liddle Collection catalogue: section NAVY

Category: Arctic

POW: Item 59: R. Unwin and Tape Num [Blank]. Torpedoed Oct. 1942 and U-Boat Rescue.


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Arctic Paradise'

1981

File containing manuscript notes, drafts, press cuttings and associated correspondence relating to ?Arctic Paradise?, broadcast on BBC2 in September 1981. Originally kept with material on 'A Maybe Day...

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Origin of Arctic plants in Britain

Bulman, G W

[1898]

Extracted from Science Gossip, 1898.

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Arctic vegetation past and present

Seward, A C (1863-1941)

1925

Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, v. 50, pt. 1, 1925.

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With ski and sledge over Arctic glaciers

Conway, Sir William Martin (1856-1937)

1898

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Forty thousand against the Arctic : Russia's polar empire

Smolka, Harry Peter (1912-)

1938

Illustrated lining-papers.

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Swedish Arctic and Antarctic explorations, 1758-1910 : bibliography

Hulth, J M (1865-1928)

[1910]

"Appendix I. Swedish contributions to Arctic and Antarctic explorations of other nations": p. [144]-148, 170. "Appendix II. Members of the Swedish Arctic and Antarctic expeditions [biographical notice...

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